Welcome to Eggplant!

This project started out with the working title “FoodNet”. But that was never meant to be the real name of the project. It was just a descriptive title to put on the project grant application.

So, we’ve been dancing around this for a while now, and as part of the latest hack day, it was finally time to settle on a proper name for the project. Both in order to buy and set up a proper top-level domain name, but also to build an identity (logo, design, etc.) for the project.

The field was soon whittled down to three candidates: FoodNet, Potluck and Eggplant. And on the hack day, the name was put to a vote among the people present.

It didn’t take long to name the project Eggplant.

As Mikkel wrote in his recommendation for the name: “An eggplant looks elegant, dark and shiny. Easy to make a good logo. Is a suitably generic name to not only communicate “food coop”, but still has a clear reference to the root of the project. Has 8 letters, which is a magic number for project and domain names.”

So, now we’ve bought the eggplant.dk domain and will be setting up the project website here in the coming weeks.